The impressive advance of the Syrian opposition within a week is the unintended consequence of two other conflicts, one nearby and one distant, reports CNN in its analysis of the rapid developments in Syria. It leaves several key US allies with a new and mostly unknown Islamist force leading and ruling large swathes of their strategic neighbor, if not most of it. Syria has absorbed so much diplomatic “oxygen” over the past 20 years that it’s only natural that this week of radical change seems to have come out of nowhere. Since the invasion of Iraq, the US has struggled to find a Syria policy that could meet the vastly different needs of its allies Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and occasional partners Iraq and Lebanon. The anarchist of the region Syria has always been the “anarchist” of the region: connecting Iraq’s oil to the Mediterranean, the Shiites of Iraq and Iran to the […]
Source: News Beast
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